News Today

Interesting news today for security professionals:

  1. Suicide bomber motivations point to social and economic factors more than religious or militarism
  2. Dead FARC leader’s laptop data cited in US-backed Columbian military operation in Ecuador. Evidence of “dirty bomb” alleged. Laptop data also the basis of alleged FARC ties to Venezuela
  3. Seattle-area home fires labeled as domestic terrorism. ELF group suspected due to giant white sheets left behind with the red letters “ELF” painted on them

Lying Chef Exposed

I suppose if he had not boasted so extravagantly, this liar might have been able to get away with his revision of history:

Mr Irvine, originally from Salisbury in Wiltshire, admitted to the St Petersburg Times that he had had made up parts of his CV because of social pressure.

He said: “When I first came down there and I met people down there with all this money, it was like trying to keep up with the Joneses. I was sitting in a bar one night and that came out. It was stupid.”

His apparent claims that he had cooked for US presidents were shown to be without foundation, as was his boast that he had helped construct the royal wedding cake in 1981.

His rise to fame and fortune came quickly, however, and it was surely hard not to arouse suspicion. Knighted by the Queen for cooking? Those are some Joneses he must be trying to keep up with.